Carousel -- Week Ending 9th October 2009

[ 8 October 2009 ]

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Welcome to Friday (or Thursday, whatever!) my sweet dumpling! I hope your day is shaping up to be très magnifique! If it ain’t, this collection of silliness will surely bring a grin to the face of even the most dour pirogi! I wish I could find a picture of dumplings dancing. Like this but with tutus.

Okay I am getting totally off-track. HERE WE GO!

<3 Want something rad to do on Friday November 13th? Sanrio, Bubblepunch & Royal-T are having a Hello Kitty goth party in L.A.! HAHA, awesome. Shrinkle will be there too, how have we not met yet?! I want to go… !

<3 Tina emailed me about I heart unicorns perfume. Apparently it smells like an ’80s childhood! Has anyone tried it?!

<3 They Say That, In Dreams… from Mystic Medusa. Interesting! What do you think?

<3 Alla Kostromicheva by Kevin Macintosh for 125 Magazine. Yum.

<3 look up at the sky.

<3 A reasonably comprehensive list of school pranks from Wikipedia. Pretty funny, but pretty horrifying, too. Kids are nuts.

<3 Worldometers = real time statistics. I know, I know, the word “statistics” is very off-putting, but honestly, this site is amazing. Your jaw will drop.

<3 Jazzi shows how to DIY Richard Nicoll’s ribbon bracelet cuffs! She is rad & clever!

<3 I like this poem:

Love After Love by Derek Walcott

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

Viktor + Rolf
Hello Viktor + Rolf, you are amazing.

<3 Aw, Sonia Rykiel! So cute. Shows like this make me wish I was a fashion designer JUST so I could have shows.

<3 Zoe Foster talks about Lindsay Lohan’s lips & the problems with injections in that area. Good points, ladies! (For the record, I am not against cosmetic procedures. But I think some are more likely to be successful than others…)

<3 BEATLE JUICE!!! This is sooooooo good.

<3 Say something nice to me… by Jeroen.

<3 Givenchy never fails me, either. YUM. I want to mate with these shoes.

<3 I need letterpressed business cards. NEED! NEED! You need them too. They are beautiful.

<3 Doc Sorrow is brand-spanking new but you should subscribe right now. Lola is one of the best writers I know.

<3 How to Monetize a Web Site: A Real World Tutorial. Wise words for anyone who wants to make some cash as a blogger!

<3 The Mayan Solar Glyphs are really interesting (& the descriptions are magnificent) but I don’t really know what you’re meant to do with them! Anyone want to clue me in?!

<3 Marie Claire Italia October 2009 — NSFW but very beautiful!

<3 7 Steps To Playing A Much Bigger Game... with a free workbook. Holla!

<3 A guy thing – or a gay thing? from The Listener. Oh, boys. (Thanks, Annabel!)

The reason New Zealand men dress so badly is that if there is one overarching pattern that shapes the clothing choices of New Zealand men, it is their great fear of “looking like a poof”.

<3 More DIY happiness from Jazzi: Alexander Wang Spring 2010 socks. Girl has skills. I am so not that patient… or clever!

<3 The Importance Of Speech. I need to print this out & wallpaper my brain with it.

Barbie Gone Bad — Works From The 7th Annual Altered Barbie Exhibit is very strange. Kali is my favourite.

<3 From the same blog, Charlotte Mann is rad & cut-up currency.

<3 Finally… hahahahahah!

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Videos for you! Videos for you! Videos for YOU!
Watch them all please.
Thank you.

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Charles Bukowski <3


You cannot possibly comprehend how cute this really is.


PLACE YOUR BETS NOW!


I leave you with Carl Sagan & Stephen Hawking.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. Space is filled with a network of wormholes. You might emerge somewhere else in space, some when-else in time. The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars. A still more glorious dawn awaits. Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise. A morning filled with 400 billion suns, the rising of the milky way. The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths, of exquisite interrelationships, of the awesome machinery of nature. I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this cosmos, in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky. But the brain does much more than just recollect — it inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes, it generates abstractions. The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning. The brain has it’s own language for testing the structure & consistency of the world. For thousands of years, people have wondered about the universe. Did it stretch out forever, or was there a limit? From the big bang to black holes, from dark matter to a possible big crunch, our image of the universe today is full of strange sounding ideas. How lucky we are to live in this time, the first moment in human history, when we are in fact visiting other worlds. The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. Recently we’ve waded a little way out, & the water seems inviting.


Love letters & feather headdresses,

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  1. I adore that poem!
    & The Worldometers thing is amazing!
    Love the carousel gala xo.

    <3 Kat · Oct 8, 02:21 PM · #

  2. I keep staring at that photo. Where are her legs? Also, have you seen this?

    www.neimanmarcus.com/store/sit…

    It is a cupcake car. There are no words.

    xx

    <3 Amelia · Oct 8, 02:41 PM · #

  3. Love the carousel this week! That poem — which I first read in The Time Traveler’s Wife and wrote about in this post on my site: www.positivelypresent.com/2009… — is amazing! I’m so glad you featured it here! :)

    <3 Positively Present · Oct 8, 02:47 PM · #

  4. Amelia — Her legs are in black, if you look REALLY closely you can see them! But at that angle, the photo is totally insane. I love it so much!

    <3 Gala · Oct 8, 02:49 PM · #

  5. I’m so proud to be half a dutchie, whenever I see someting Viktor&Rolf made

    <3 V. · Oct 8, 03:15 PM · #

  6. Last night I had an extremely vivid, intense dream about an ex lover. That never happens for me. It was so real, I wondered if maybe he was dreaming the same thing at the same time. Made me miss him terribly. I wonder what Mystic Medusa would have to say about that…

    This is a really meaty carousel this week! So much great stuff

    <3 Alzy · Oct 8, 03:43 PM · #

  7. That poem is utterly scrumptious… food for the soul :)
    Have you seen the beyooootiful little people sculptures? http://little-people.blogspot.com/

    <3 Goddess Leonie · Oct 8, 04:14 PM · #

  8. Thank you Gala. I really really needed all of this fuzzy good feeling stuff today. You have no idea…

    <3 Bri · Oct 8, 04:18 PM · #

  9. Love this collection of links. The cut up money is amazing.

    Also, Stella McCartney’s crystal unicorn chandelier caught my eye and reminded me of you: www.bloomacious.com/bloomaciou…

    <3 Jami · Oct 8, 04:47 PM · #

  10. Huh – I know Douglas, and I thought he was SO off in his ‘looking like a poof’ theory that I had to write in and disagree. (The letter’s in the ‘house market’ issue. I know, this week I am a TOTAL media trollop.)

    <3 Nadine · Oct 8, 04:50 PM · #

  11. AWW :D thanks for mentioning our event Gala! i hope that you’ll come out.. meet shrinkle, myself, and my bubblepunch half Michelle!!

    exciting times.

    <3 Yume Ninja · Oct 8, 05:15 PM · #

  12. Loved all that links Gala and that Beatle Juice was so fricken cool !

    <3 Coletta · Oct 8, 07:02 PM · #

  13. dear gala-

    i’ve had the worst month ever.
    my cyclical depression hit,
    real depression grew,
    i made a move to a city where i know no one,
    the love of my life rejected me for good,
    and my best friend’s son died.
    needless to say,
    i’ve been walking around in a daze.
    seeing the good in things had become more and more difficult.

    however,reading this post,
    and everything positive that comes with it,
    has brought me back around.
    even if just for a moment…

    thank you

    <3 miriam · Oct 8, 08:29 PM · #

  14. I agree V. I am Dutch too and always so proud to see how big Viktor&Rolf have made it! Especially now that I live in London I really get to see how big they are outside Holland.

    I love the school pranks link. I remember, we had a pond/fountain thingie in the middle of the entrance hall to our school. The older kids used to tell all the newcomers that there were a lot of coins in the pond and that they should have a go at trying to fish some out. The kids would often then run over to find a spot to sit and try their luck. Just as they were about to sit down, butt still in mid-air, the older kids would give them a shove and they would land in the water and have a wet behind for the rest of the day. I always felt sorry for the kids and secretly wanted to run after them and tell them it wouldn’t always be this bad. However, I’d be lying if I said that the funny sight didn’t have my belly aching with laughter every now and then.

    <3 Fleur Karsten · Oct 8, 09:28 PM · #

  15. Have you ever heard of Bookcrossing? It’s a website where people register books and spread them randomly across the world for other people to find. It’s a lot about randomness and serendipity, and I’m in love with it. I registered some books and I’m leaving them at college, buses and all sorts of places. It made me think of you and your spontaneous and quirky ways. Check it out, the link is www.bookcrossing.com

    Kisses&Hugs

    <3 Miss Sofia · Oct 8, 11:02 PM · #

  16. That picture from the Viktor + Rolf show is hardcore messing with my mind right now! That’s so amazing, and if I hadn’t seen your comment I would have never figured out how they pulled that off.

    I always love your Carousels, and this week’s was no different!

    <3 Natalie · Oct 9, 02:35 AM · #

  17. Worldometers is rather astonishing and puts it all into perspective. It’s also reminding me that its never too late to buy unicorn smell transport back to happier times. What a great bottle!

    <3 M · Oct 9, 03:30 AM · #

  18. I randomly found your blog today and I just wanted to let you know that if I could marry a blog, I would marry yours. Excellent stuff!!!

    xoxo
    Mandi

    <3 Mandi · Oct 9, 11:13 AM · #

  19. A Glorious Dawn was beautiful!

    <3 Gracers · Oct 9, 12:03 PM · #

  20. I took a letterpress class at my university and loved it. You get such an appreciation for it! All those little tiny pieces of lead! I think I spent like 36 hours on my final project.

    <3 Dayna · Oct 9, 07:58 PM · #

  21. YAY!!! I didn’t know you were going to the Hello Kitty goth thing. Will you be at the fashion show the following night? I’m making a dress for the show.

    Anyway, I hope we meet in real life and end up HATING EACH OTHERS’ GUTS!!! ;-)

    <3 Shrinkle · Oct 9, 09:14 PM · #

  22. Thanks for linking to my Dancing Dumplings photograph!

    <3 Joe · Oct 9, 10:37 PM · #

  23. Salutations!

    Totally diggin the poem-the dancing dumplings were adorable-old lady wheelchair chicken was hilarious! what ever happened to Banzai?-and how crazy is the Worldometer?? just WOW!

    <3 A.M. tha Lamb · Oct 10, 01:34 AM · #

  24. The worldometers site is amazing. I think its really alarming that for every billion liters of water that we consume, someone dies via water related diseases and in my mind that is a lot.

    I also find the number of days left until gas, coal and fuel runs out very scary.

    <3 Christy · Oct 10, 01:46 PM · #

  25. I like

    <3 fleur · Oct 10, 02:58 PM · #

  26. Such a cute little pooch!

    <3 Aesthetic Thoughts · Oct 10, 03:00 PM · #

  27. aah! i love that poem too, thank you for introducing to mystic medusa and therefore that poem which i read almost every day! XO

    <3 Crosby · Oct 11, 05:21 PM · #

  28. I love this post, I studied that poem when i was at school and is till absolutely love it, thanks for sharing, love those videos :Dx

    <3 rosalie · Oct 12, 08:18 PM · #

  29. Are the menu-y bits not working, or is it just for me?
    :(

    <3 Liv · Oct 15, 01:50 PM · #